Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-03-10
WEST VIRGINIA POLITICS.
Comments From Our state Exchanges
Hon, Both PARTIES.

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estS.-Wstzei Volunteer.
The prompt announcement of the puI-
pose of Governor Wilson TO appoint MIR.
Lucas to the vacancy, makes apparent the
utter selfshness of the diSgraceful wal
upon the caucus nominee. -FdirmORt hdeT.
A premium has been placed on kicking
by thus eleyating over time tried Demo
Gratis, the most mischievOus kicker and
unreasonable crank in the State. The
Democrats ~hereabouts are not only dis
couraged, but thoroughly disgusted.-
Wayne Neirs.
The appointment is . mistake OF the
Governors, and Mr.. Lucas will make a
greater mistake if he accepts the place; for
it Will be hard to rid himself OF the sus-
picion that his action in opposing MIR.
Camden WAS controlled by selfish motives.
Huntington IdrCrtiSer.
The Democratic kickers, headed by Dan.
Lucas, who was patted on the back by Jim
Mason, have gotten the Democratic party
of this State into a pretty bad shape, We
must confess. The Republicans are ex-
ulting over it, but we can tell them it
bodies them no good. The Democrats will
20 into the campaign of 1SSS, recognized
and strengthened, with a determination to
win-and will win-the kickers to the
contrary nOtwithStanding.-H Pleasant
Register.
We hope the Democrats of Jefferson may
unite ON some good man to succeed MIR.
Lucas i'm the House OF Delegates-One who
is willing to bury personal preiudices and
animOsities aud work tremendously with
the party. In other words: man who will
abide by party usage. The fact is: the
Democrats of Jefferson do not intend to
vote Tor any man who doesn't observe the
fact that the servant is not above his Lord,
the creature is not greater than the creator.
= Hgiaid Free Press.
The Democratic party will live and
flourish long after these men, (the twelve
kickerSl, have been consigned to their
political graves. And a word to our Re-
publican friends-dOn't crow too loud, or
YOU will find q united and determined De-
mOcracy drawn up in battle array for the
great fight of next year. Although beaten
now, the majority will not follow the eX-
ample of the minority and kick-they
amt that kind of Democrats. Pm Ham
de N0rS.
We much regret land we believe that
We may speak for the majority of those
who have agreed wife us in this matter to
learn of Governor Wilson's purpose to APP
point Hon. ID. b. Lucas to succeed Senator
Camden. We had hoped that nothing
would occur to clinch the charge that these
twelve Democrats who have stood out
with such extraordinary iortitude against
the influences brought to bear upon them,
have been fighting for the elevation OF
some favored one, and not for the princi-
pies prOfcSsed .-NORrOe UdtchmHn.
Now is the time for the voters to demand
that fIctiOnal fights be stopped. And If
we are not mistaken the gentlemen who
waged the warfare against the usageS OF
the party in the contest for Senator, which
has Just ended, will he the first members
OF the party who Will bow before the edict
of the people, and their voices will never
again be heard breeding diSsension and
defeat in the councils of the party. The
mills Of the gods grind slowly, but they
grind exceedingly tine"-and they finish
the grist before they get through Charles
ton Star.
We think Governor Wilson makesa mis-
take in taking any n of the African
denites for this position. 1t will be charged
that il was the result Of a bargain and
and tends to throw suspicion on the acts OF
the twelve who stood ont for what they
believed to he the truth and right. He
could have named some one more accepta-
BILE to both wings of his party and thus
.N-.--N1-.-1 lii. A.. D,-rt
lican, we do not object to his committing
hara-khi with his party a much As he
pleases. -Park0SbUrg Journal.
MI. Price, President of the Senate, in an
interview. said that had he had the ap-
pOintment Mr.. Lucas would not have been
appointed rs it looked very much like the
twelve recalcitrant Democrats were fight
ing for some one Of their number instead OF
for principles. They desired 10 defeat Mr..
Camden, but not for g%lorificatiou or the APP
pOintment OF any one of their number.
President Price strongly intimated that he
voiced the sentiments of a majority of the
twelve recalcitrants." The trouble with
Mr.. Price seems % he hat he was too
thick-headed to see what was plain to
even the most ObtuSe: that the kick against
Mr.. Camden was n scheme cOnCOcted and
carried out by the State House ring for
their own political advancement and moth
ing else. President Price and the other
kickers were made the tools to carry out
this affair, and now when 1t is too late and
no further use can be made OF them they
see it.-ShepherdStolrR Register.
The appointment by the Governor of Mr..
ID. Il. Lucas, OF the county of Jefferson, to
tll the vacancy in the Senatorial represen-
tatiOn of this State, caused by the failure
of the Legislature to elect, is one of the
peculiar acts OF unwiSdOm sometimes COM
mitted by men of sense in moments of
cOnceit and folly, that does not please
either friends or enemies, but is regretted
and condemned by both. Mr.. Lucas was
a candidate for the office before the election
of members of the Legislature, but was
afraid to let the people know it. lie ran
for the Legislature, not, rs we believe, for
any good he hoped To do either the people
or the party, but for the opportunities
tor mischief in the Senatorial election
a seat in that body would afford him. Tie
eXerted himself here TO keep members
from signing the call for the caucus. lie
was aSSiduOuS in his efforts to keep those
who had refused to help nominate from
helping to elect after the nomination had
been made. And when, ON the last even
ing of the session, 4 conference was held
by the Democrats, he alone of all the anti
caucus members, refused to assent to a
compromise on the basis of Camden's
withdrawal, thus showing hat with him
at least it was not a fight against Camden,
but against the Democratic party itself;
that wanting the place himself he was I'M
willing to consent that anybody else should
have it either among his own friends or
those of Mr.. Camden.-KdadThd Gazette.